So Moved, St. John’s: 18 January 2021

This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020 results.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020 results.
Council is back for the new year, and they're starting by taking out the trash. Also, bringing in the bakeries.
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in St. John’s.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
Everybody Deserves A Home We got things started with a proclamation for National Housing Day, taking place on Sunday, November
Come for the roundup of Monday’s city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the “fastest man who never ran.”
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
Council is back for the new year, and they're starting by taking out the trash. Also, bringing in the bakeries.
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
How is the democratic process supposed to work? If we’re cavalier about limiting offline public engagement, we risk de-prioritizing full and fair democracy.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
Get your most outraged social media warrior face on: you have TWO WEEKS to ALL CAPS your way into Council inboxes to explain why you are pro or con the BYB.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
They have added video. Each councillor now comes to the meeting framed by a hastily curated slice of their natural environment.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
Let’s mentally splatter-paint our way through some kind of understanding of what is happening in our city’s bi-weekly teleconferences and see how we do!
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
It was clear that Council did not take budget decisions lightly. What was less clear were the rationales behind some
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
The whole city glistened, alabaster white and silent except for the cheerful calls of people greeting each other as they snowshoed and skied around the neighbourhood, and the louder shouts of younger more daring citizens snowboarding down Holloway Street on what Drew Brown called “the island’s sickest ski jump.”1 For three days our neighbourhoods turned back into communities, people had time for each other and, well, a lot of people had a lot of fun. And then the cars were allowed back on the roads. Obviously, people had to get food and medical supplies and they had to get back to work. The nurses who did forty-hour shifts and the hotel workers who stayed on for days to look after people from out of town had to get home. Not every neighbourhood has a food store in walking distance and not everybody can walk even if theirs does. But that…
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
For years, an anonymous Twitter account mocked accident victims, berated grieving parents, and terrorized women. Today the Independent removes his mask.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
As someone who has worked freely as a sex worker and someone who has experienced sexual exploitation, I can say unequivocally: the two are not the same.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
"As long as sex work is criminalized then authorities have a mandate to treat sex workers as criminals. They're oversurveilled
If you’re disappointed with the results of the recent U-Pass student vote at Memorial, don’t be disappointed with the students. It’s good news that 51% of eligible voters participated, and it means that 71% of those students voting “No” is a clear rejection of the proposal by the student body. However, this vote can only tell us how students felt about this proposal. It does not tell us how students feel about a U-Pass in general. Students did not support the specific U-Pass program proposed by Memorial University, Metrobus, and the City of St. John’s because of ineffective communication, inappropriate pricing, and inadequate scope to address the core transit issue: that all true growth opportunities for Metrobus ridership lie outside the current service area. Metrobus and the City have been thinking about U-Pass programs as a means of improving public transit since at least 2011. One of the recommendations in…
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
Young candidates focus on social justice, climate change and democratic reform, offering voters a new path in building a healthy and sustainable city.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
“As the capital city, St. John’s hosts a big proportion of our most important provincial facilities, but the province has chosen to pass the disproportionate tax burden of the associated services directly onto city taxpayers.”
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
Women in Newfoundland and Labrador are more likely to be university educated and substantially more employed than men in the province, yet face higher rates of poverty and lower rates of pay.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
The City’s latest effort to encourage recycling reveals deeper issues with the way women are engaged in municipal politics and programming.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
Flying a flag should be a statement, not a policy.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
“Considering the Anglican Church’s history of endorsing religious violence and its ongoing role in the suppression of gay rights, I believe it’s wrong for our secular governments to align themselves with this organization.”
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in
Come for the roundup of Monday's city council meeting; stay for the delightful interview with Gord Follett Jr., the "fastest
City of St. John’s finance committee chair says council will consider taking grant money from other sectors to reinstate its arts investment, but residents say that’s not good enough.
This week’s meeting was startlingly fast and painless, so we’ll switch gears to unpacking the new Citizen Satisfaction Survey 2020
A clash between affordable housing advocates, community gardeners, & neighbours neatly illustrates the promises and perils of urban planning in